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Scarcely six days earlier, Father Jenco had been freed in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley by Islamic Jihad, the shadowy terrorist organization that had kidnaped him in Beirut in January 1985. Now, suffering from heart disease and near exhaustion, he was eager to go home. But first, as he emphasized again and again throughout a week of almost unbearable excitement and emotion, he had some urgent promises to keep...
...January 1985. His captors claimed that Jenco, who suffers from a heart condition, was being freed because of "deteriorating health" and released photos of the haggard priest in a red shirt. But their hostage seemed reasonably fit when found by Lebanese police the next morning in the Bekaa Valley...
According to the radio, she divides most of her time between Moslem west Beirut and the village of Qbayat in the Syrian-controlled Bekaa Valley of eastern Lebanon...
...underscore Jerusalem's position one more time, Israeli jets streaked across eastern Lebanon on an anti-P.L.O. mission early last week. The fighters blasted P.L.O. targets that Israeli officials termed "terrorist bases" near the town of Bar Elias in the Syrian-controlled Bekaa Valley. The bases apparently belonged to the Syrian-backed Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, a dissident faction of the P.L.O. The raid came only a day before Hussein's meeting with Arafat...
...been removed from the aircraft on its second visit to Beirut and were not part of the group that had been taken into custody by the Amal militia. The hostages said that they had been detained for the first nine days in what they called "a bunker" in the Bekaa Valley. The first time they had seen the other hostages was last Tuesday night when they were brought to Beirut for a visit by Red Cross officials. "We were pretty frightened," admitted Robert Trautmann, Jr., one of the four. "But they didn't maltreat us, and the food was kind...